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Yashweh, Fyr, Alice, Kilala, Chelsea

"Hooray!" The princess cheered. "We get to learn how to sew, Nix! Isn't this exciting?!"

"Several times over?" Alvaro asked, looking at Henry before looking at the women. "Well well well, what do you think, Lewis?" He asked, looking over at the prime minister, "It seems Henry is going to be a father five times over at least."

"We're all very happy. Especially since Alice and I have litters." Fyr pointed out.

Yashweh looked over at the girl calling Oliver's name. Which one was Martha?

"But Oliver she's been missing since last night and she never came back to her room! Either you tell us or you find her and bring her back yourself!"

"Annabelle." Alvaro warned, "I'll send Kashi to find her, Oliver. You stay here and eat."

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"But it's cold ou--" But Oliver took the back door out, leaving Yashweh there with a sudden feeling of uncomfortableness. The chef spoke an incredibly rough dialect of his language, but that was it. So the little prince stood there feeling awkward, taking a bite of his food.

Alvaro wanted to grab Oliver but the sudden stiffness in Lewis's words made him look at the man. "You be sure to eat a lot as well, Lewis. We'll have an entire day to ourselves for once."

"I thin maybe in less than that." Alice said, "He looked too small in those clothes, they're probably releasing more heat than they're keeping in."

Fyr made a humming noise, "I could sniff him out if he's not back in thirty, make sure he hasn't keeled over from cold."

"We can send Kashi, Fyr."

"Do you not have faith in my abilities?" the pinkette cried towards Henry.

He hardly flinched, dipping the meat in the syrup and taking another bite, "Kashi knows the layout better than you."

Annabelle looked at Nix, "Well, it's not hard to get lost in those woods, but I'm sure he'll find her. And if not she's probably made herself a tent like a soldier or something. She's into that." And gave a small laugh, looking at her food nervously.

Martha had tried to make a tent, but all she had found were little sticks, and everything was covered in snow, there were no leaves, so she had simply curled up underneath a hibernating best she could, sketchbook against her chest, pencils nothing but nubs. And she was frigid, winter having seeped through the wools and to the marrow of her bones. She couldn't curl up any tighter.

Above her the reindeer snorted, doing his best to keep majority of the winter away before hearing the faint call. That was too far off. Father Winter looked down at the small fawn curled up on the other side of Martha, knowing that the winter would rush them both if he left. He bent down, breathing on the fawn to wake it up. The large brown eyes opened sleepily to look up, hearing the father snort.

Then it stood, giving a small call back, Martha barely shifting beside it before the small baby reindeer crawled out and shook itself off. Silent communication between the animals before it trotted off, calling again towards whoever was calling first. The child wasn't used to using her legs yet, walking on wobbled legs and walking to the side before bouncing forward and repeating.

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"She's smart enough!" Annabelle said. "She's just stubborn, but no one knows what she does out there either." She murmured, Martha just always came back cold and she'd go rush off somewhere. "But it's not like she went out there wearing her night things!"

"I'll be sure to tell her when she's inside, Miss Kiara." he said, now having to divert his attention. "We're going to get ourselves breakfast, and we'll go to the alcove if you'd like to get all dressed up, somewhere where no one else can find us."

Annabelle nodded, "that's a good idea. We need to find the biggest cup."

"I can bring you that, one moment." Saegthin moved from his spot working on a stew for lunch, going through the cabinets before pulling out a large and colorful goblet. He smiled momentarily at it before offering it over to Annabelle, "Will this work? It's thick, she won't feel the heat through the glass."

Martha? Was that the little one? The fawn gave another noise, giving a small bounce towards him but stumbled. A small cry of panic before she re-caught her footing and turned around. His feet looked funny, did they have a hard bottom like 'Martha's?' She looked back again to make sure he was following before looking forward and calling. The louder, deeper one of Father Winter responded and she bounced again, staggering slowly towards the noise.

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The Patheran looked at the mug and nodded. "That would work best. Let me find you some tea leaves."

"No no it's okay letu s find them!" and Annabelle began digging through the cabinets and drawers, making sure to put everything back before continuing.

Saegthin followed behind her though and re-arranged everything into its proper order.

Alvaro glanced at Kiara, unsure what to tell her before looking back at him, smiling and taking a hand to lightly kiss it. "That'd be splendid. It's been a while since we've done that. I've missed it."

The larger reindeer was quick to come into view, watching the wobbling fawn and the second human whose feet were growing cold. He snorted, leaning down to sniff the boy, careful that the icicles on his antlers or the frost on his fur did not touch him. This boy smelled like the castle.

Martha had slowly woken up hearing her name, sitting up and looking just as cold as Oliver, teeth chattering beneath the skin. She looked at him before hugging him tightly, trembling against him mostly from the cold.

The fawn gave a few small grunts, Father Winter returning them and walking in the opposite direction, the little one hopping forward and looking at them, giving small grunts again and hopping forward some more.

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"I've never made tea before.' Annabelle responded, watching her friend do it. "I didn't know there was a whole bunch of stuff behind it. I just thought you put it in and pour."

Alvaro nodded. "Let's make you a plate and we can eat, then. The flowers can only wait so long." and chuckled.

Yashweh was putting his dishes in the sink, jumping as the back door opened. Oliver and Martha staggered in, the Latian seeing some weird wobbly ugly creature with a large nose before it hobbled away. he closed the door and looked at them. "You need to stay put! You're more blue than the sky!" The prince said worriedly.

"Tea!" Annabelle said quickly.

Alice was attending to martha as Yashweh sat Oliver down in front of the fire next to her.

"Sweetheart you can't warm up in all of this." The mouse murmured, removing the winterwear and her boots until the girl was in nothing but underclothes, trembling just as hard as Oliver. "Ger closer, body heat." and nudged them to where their arms and need were touching, deciding that was close tough. "I'll go find you a blanket. Henry?"

The man stood. "I'll show you where, follow me."

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Martha looked at the tea curiously, cold addled brain trying to process before taking a sip, flinching. It burned.

"Don't apologize." Annabelle said. "You found her and you did very good work. Good job."

"She's proud of you. Yashweh said softly, "she's happy to see her sister again."

The body heat made Martha arch away, Pix's skin feeling like fire but she was forced against it, hands tight on the drink, trying not to tremble to prevent knocking her knees against Olivers.

"Here we go." Alice walked back in with Henry, wrapping a blanket around each child before wrapping them both up in a much larger one.

Alvaro nodded, filling his plate. "After she's had some rest."

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"Well if she told you not to it can't be helped." Annabelle said.

Yashweh shook his head. "I'm good, I've eaten. You need to get warm though. I need you to get warm okay, that's an order. And you're only warm when I say you are." Which would probably be soon, but he just wanted Oliver to relax a bit.

"I know, it's automatic." Al said, eating from his own plate and hearing the soft words. "I love you too." he murmured, leaning towards the man and kissing his cheek.

The hare gave a small noise, ear barely raising. The libido of a hare and the stamina of a wolf was either the best mix in the world or the worst. He didn't want to move. "Can I just lay here?" he questioned, knowing if he kissed the wolf some part of his exhausted body would find energy, and he did not want that. "I need to bathe too." he murmured, stretching and looking up at Tsume. "Can we bathe first?"

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Yashweh thought and nodded. "That sounds good. Everyone else seems to be waking up so he might be waking up soon too. and smiled, starting to grow excited about going home. "It's just weird that it's so cold up here, but my home is so hot." he murmured.

"I also like you sober enough to walk on your own." Alvaro chuckled, pushing his food around his plate. He preferred Lewis when he was mostly sober instead of drunk, the man sometimes had relapses after drinking too much. "Maybe a glass of wine before we do it, I like that. Wine always sets the mood."

"Oh heaven forbid." he chuckled, finding the loose white hair in the back and running his fingers through it, bringing the tanned lips to his own before letting Tsume pull away. "Oh, because after last night and this morning you still have that ability?" he questioned with a chuckle, stretching and arching his back away from the bed before relaxing against it. "But that might be a good idea."